The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-15 00:00:00

The publication of Tug SUN NaWSPAPIIt commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1833. We are obliged to the Times for enforcing on her MAJESTY'S Ministers the arguments which we have on two late occasions addressed to them on the subject of the Ballot. Our Contemporary urges the Conser vatives this morning, in the following paragraph, to muster with all their force and oppose the motion for the Ballot : It ought to be recollected by Conservative Members of the House of Commons, that the strongest possible attendance in their places this evening is a duty of the very highest moment. Mr. Grote brings on his annual absurdity—the Ballot. The gang of Radicals have been boasting loudly that the Ballot question spreads like wildfire through tlse realm, and that proofs of its growth will be afforded hourly by increased ma jorities out of doors, and increased minorities within doors. Now, it is desirable to quash one at least of such false hoods, by presenting within the walls of Parliament increased majorities against Mr. Grote and his Ballot, as compared with those of former years. To those of the Ministers who are not yet altogether pros rate before the Radical throne, it would be wi a to give encouragement, by showing them that there is still salva-ion for them beyond the pale of Warburton Grote, and Behtharn —that to keep their seats they need not plu!lg s headlong into the snares laid for them by men who hate the Constitution—and that ante is maintainable on less desperate tertits than disgrace to themselses and ruin to the Monarchy. Lord Melbourne ought to be confirmed in his antipathy to revolution by proofs that the revolutionary fac tion is not so well able to assault the State as is the Conser vative power to protect it. But it is with the Conservatives to furnish such demonstration or to withhold it—to muster their whole strength, and support Lord Melbourne against the quackery of Mr. Grote, or, by leaving the Minister in the hands of the ballottnonger, excuse him to his own conscience for surrendering to democracy at discretion. We earnestly, therefore, entreat the Conservative Members to go down and abate this periodical nuisance of the Ballot. The Ministers are to be bribed, then, to act against their own friends, by ,the promise of being kept in office by Conservative support. But after they have voted with the Tories for a Tory principle, and against their own supporters in the House and out of the House on a principle of Reform, how long can they expect to keep their places ? Whenever they have sufficiently offended the great body of the electors, who almost all demand the Ballot, to lose their support, what will Lord MELBOURNE, Lord PALMERSTON, and Lord Jon N RUSSELL be ? Nothing but private individuals or the vassals of Sir ROBERT PEEL. They arc Ministers only by the support of the Re formers. On such a question as the Ballot they are at liberty yet to entertain doubt, and vote accordingly, but they we not at liberty to employ the power which is bestowed on them by the confidence of the Re forners to crush Reform. It would be striking their own friends, who made and who keep them Ministers. The observations of the Times must convince them that, as party men, to pit the Cabinet against the Bal lot is to com►nit political suicide. These arguments rest oh the assumed fact that the Ballot has spread like wildfire, and if the majorities in the House or out of the House disprove that assump tion, we shall admit the Times to be right and the Ministers at liberty to resist the Ballot. We can, how ever, state on good authority, that the number of Members who will support the motion will be consi derably greater than last year. The motion of Mr. GROTE was then supported by 153 votes—on the present occasion probably nearly 200 Members will side with him. It is expected that the House will not come to a division to-night, but that the debate will be adjourned. From the manceuvres of the Tories in the House of Comtnons, on Friday night, when the Report of the Parliamentary Electors' Bill was brought up, we are not disposed to entertain any very sanguine expecta tions of the ultimate success of the measure. Assuming the conduct of the patty in the Lower Hou9e to be a pretty correct index to show how the wind blows in the upper region, we fear their Lordships will not give their consent to a Bill, one effect of which would be to add considerably to the numbers of that class of electors which they think too numerous already. The boon to the freemen they will willingly grant ; but when they are asked to couple with this a shni!ar one to the ten-pounders, they will say—" No ; we stand upon the Reform Bill. That Bill was passed on the express understanding that it was to be a final measure ; and we will not consent to its being tam pered with, in so important a matter as the electoral qualification." This, or something to this effect, win be the language of the Tory Lords, who will probably do in this case, as they did in that of the Irish Tithe Bill—separate the Bill into two parts, adopting the one, and rejecting the other. Flad Mr. JERVIS'S amendment, engrafting the repeal of the enactment in the Reform Bill, which requirei the payment of a shilling from each elector on his being registered, been carried—and no thanks to certain Liberals that it was not—their Lordships would have found their task easier, and perhaps not quite so unpopular. They would have been able to urge against the measure, that it altered two enactments of the Reform Bill, instead of one. It is, however, but justice to the hereditary portion of the Legislature to say, that, in opposing the pro posed alteration of the rate-paying clause, their Lord ships will act with due regard to their own consistency. In their mouths, the finality of the Reform Bill is in telligible and appropriate language. .It is a doctrine which they have uniformly maintained as a cardinal point of their political faith, and we ought not to be surprised if they cling to it more pertinaciously than ever, now that they have been taught by experience how adm.'rably the Bill may be made to work in their favour. Had the proposed relaxation of the rate-paying clause even been calculated to give the cause of Toryism a little advantage, we doubt whether they would not have rejected it, rather than sanction:a precedent for what they call violating the integrity of the Reform Bill. But they are clear-sighted enough to discern that the balance of profit is, hi this case, greatly against them. There are ten pound voters in all the cities, towns and boroughs in England that send representatives to Parliament, but in a great many of these there are no freemen. These gentry nestle in a comparatively few select retreats. We shall only add, that it will give us the most sincere pleasure to find our fore bodings respecting the fate of this measure in the House of Lords falsified by the event. On Monday we gave Lord BROUGHAM'S Speech on the Slave Trade at full length, and as revised by his Lordship, in order that we might lend our humble as sistance in carrying into every corner of the kingdom, and into every family, the new and astounding facts with which it abounds. To the people of this country, with a few exceptions, it was news to hear, after the British Slave Trade had been abolished for thirty years, after the American Slave Trade had been abolished for a longer period, and the greatest and most influential kingdom on the Continent had fol lowed their example, that in the year 1837 it was carried on to a greater extent, and in a form more hideous than it was when WELLESLEY and WILBER FORCE began their denunciations against it in Parlia ment. It was humiliating, too, to learn that this trade was carried on chiefly by two countries, where the reigning families and the friends of freedom owe everything to England and France ; and that, though we could drive usurpers from the throne, and establish a new form of government, we could not prevail upon them to put down a nefarious traffic which enriches only a few individuals, the most debased of mankind, and affixes an infamous mark of distinction to the Spanish and Portuguese names. These two nations, and their descendants in the New World, are the greatest, and, indeed, almost the only criminals engaged in this guilty traffic. We are most intimately connected with them by com mercial and political ties. They are the most help less of all the nations of the earth, and can the least resist the united wishes of France and England ; and though the people of this country are more interested in the cause than ever—though they cheerfully gave an enormous sum to let 800,000 slaves free, and would support any energetic measure to make these allies Act like Christians, our Government goes on, and is likely to go on, in lingering negociation, not only without prospect of success, but with the conviction that all we have hitherto clone has only increased the evil. In 1835, eighty slave ships sailed from the Havannah, and returned with above 28,000 slaves ; and in the month of December of the same year, be tween 4,000 and 5,000 were landed at the port of lt:o. Thus, above 40,000 human beings, taking into account chose that died on the passage, were torn from their native country in one year, many of them sepa rated from their wives and children, to whom they are Sfeetionately attached—many of them expiring under their sufferings, and many sinking under despair, when they find themselves shackled and denied even the consolation of a voluntary death—and all these horrible cruelties permitted by civilized Europe, and sanctioned by Sovereigns whom the Head of the Catholic Church dignifies with the title rt . " Most Faithful and most Catholic !" What a iisgrace to Christianity ! Great blame attaches to this country and France. They have the influence, if they choose to exert it, to make the Governments of these slave-trading countries join with them in making the crime a felony. Force would not be required ; but even force would be justifiable in such a cause : and what nation would take part with men so criminal and so debased ? The great remedy, however, is emancipation ; and every friend of humanity will rejoice to learn that a leading member of the French Chamber of Deputies has introduced a measure to that effect for the French colonies, and that it has been favourably received. M. PASSY proposed that all children horn after a certain day should be declared free, and that slaves should have greater facility than at present in purchasing their freedom. The proposition was accepted by seven out of nine bureaus, or committees. This augurs well, and leads us to hope that the effects of Lord BrtouGuAm's remarkable speech will not be confined to this country, but extend an unextinguishable hatred of slavery to every portion of the civilized world. The alarming frequency of fires, by which not only are many human lives sacrificed, but (which is nearly as bad,) such a destruction of property as to produce ruin And wretchedness during the remainder of life, force us to the inquiry, whether all that can be done is done to avert or lessen the latter evil. During the he;ght of nocturnal incendiarism, when the isle was " frighted from its propriety," the primary cause was grappled with by a change of Ministers ; but very influential secondary causes, arising chiefly from the bad feeling of labourers towards their employers, still remained ; and these were met by a practical measure, which in I very short time effectually abated this dreadful evil. To Mr. H. HANDLEY, the Member for Lincoln shire, the praise is due, of moving and pressing, till he compelled the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to give way, the abolition of the duty on the insurance of farming stock. Now a Member on the other side, Colonel SIBTHORP, has a notice on the books for the abolition of the duty on fire insurances alto gQther. We know that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will say, that in the present state of the revenue, he cannot afford to repeal any tax. That, how ever, is no answer—let him devise another of lesser evil to supply the deficiency. The duty on insurances against fir:: is a tax upon prudence, most calamitous in its consequences. Every human being burnt out of his house and home, and driven to sudden and irremediable destitution, is at once a witness and a victim, speaking, trumpet-tongued, the horrors and iniquity of this tax. Expediency and humanity alike demand its repeal. Who but the most profligate and reckless of Ministers would think of creating or continuing a tax of two hundred per cent. upon prudence? Or who but those who ish to give the landed interest a preference in all things, would think of freeing the inhabitants of vil lages from a tax which they perpetuate upon the in habitants of towns ? Is it wise (we need not ask is it just) to keep alive this odious distinction ? Let those who think it is not—those who behold or who read of the fires that arc nightly taking place—who see or ima gine the misery they produce to the wretched indivi duals, who, in a moment, are dispossessed of their all/ join us, in calling upon Parliament to agree to Colonel SIBTIfORP'S motion. It seems to be an unanimous opinion that the differences which have grown up between the United States and Gi eat Britain in consequence of the insurrection in Canada, IA ill be peacefully accomodated. " The affair of the Caro line," says the Times, "it is obvious, can lead to no misun derstanding with the Cabinet of Washington." "We are bound to say," it adds—agreeing, we believe, with all ob sersing men, " that throughout the whole of the official corresponden.ce now published, the tone of conciliation, con fidence, and kindness, which marks every sentence pro ceeding from Mr. Fox on one side and Mr. FORSYTH on the other, is such as to inspire us with the most cheering hope that nothing will he done or permitted by either Government unfavourable to the continuance of the strictest and closest harmony between the two kindred nations." Such a passage, descriptive of the negotiations on two such oc currences as the assisting the Canadian insurgents, on the one side, and the destruction of the Caroline in an Ame rican port, costing the life of at last one American citizen, on the other, is a striking proof of a great improve ment in the mode of managing international affairs. It seems only necessary to remind the reader of the very different termination to the disputes as to the right of search during the French war, and of the very different spirit in which the war was carried on by the Tory Govern ment,'to convince him that Governments, notwithstanding the calumnies of their opponents, have participated in the march of civilization, and have become far less irritable, quarrelsome, and mischievous than formerly. We must remind our Tory opponents that this improvement, for the record of which we thank them, has become strongly marked under a Reform Administration at home, and in negotiation with a Republic abroad. Nor is it difficult to trace the improvement in this case up to the influence over the respective Governments of those Democratic or Reform principles which it is the pride of the Tories to crush. Had any such occurrences as those we have referred to taken place between Russia and France, the principle of personal honour, instead of public utility would have been acted on, and the two nations would have been impelled into a war. Each Sovereign would have felt that the act of the subjects of the other was like giving him the lie or striking him a blow, and was not to be reasoned about but revenged. The President of the United States, however, and the English Reform Ministers are both made, by their dependence on popular support, to consult the public interest ; and the numerous commercial ramifications which exist betwixt the two countries being infinitely powerful compared to the personal feelings of the President or the Reform Ministers, they are compelled, by the influence of the people connected with those interests, to use that language of conciliation, confide nce, and kindness which all parties deservedly praise. To the influence of the democratic principle, then, over the Governments of both countries, shall we now be indebted for the continuation of " international harmony." The appointment of Mr. SHELL to the office of Commis sioner of Greenwich Hospital, is quite a godsend to the Tories. So little have they to find fault with, that a gift which is quite in course, is commentea on as a suhicet of severe censure. We are aware, indeed, that it is hunger for office which stimulates their anger. Every such ap pointment by the Whigs, is something abstracted from that which they regard as their provender ; and, being now almost famished, they set up a howl like a batch of raven ous wolves. Fer our parts, we shall admit that we should have preferred Mr. Sill:IL in another place. His legal education, and his skill both as an advocate and a debater, seem to us to rtcommPnd him to a h'gher post than a Com missionership. If he bad been appointed Solicitor- General, or even Secretary for Ireland, on the first vacancy, it would not have been above his merits ; and would have been an additional evidence to his admiring country men of the disposition of the present Ministers to do j ustice to Ireland. But for the 'Furies to censure Lo:d MEL BOURNE for giving one of the most conspicuous orators of the House of Commons, and one of the warmest and most strenuous supporters . of the Government, the Commis si.inership of Greenwich Hospital, is to condemn the whole conduct of all previous Tory Governments,, every Tory Minister, has made similar but less worthy aP poimments. The previous Tory Governments. Es c r y Tory Minister hes done similar things. We read, in deed, a multitude of remarks about veterans, who have poured out their blood fur the country, and who ought to haze received the appointment. These ve terans must really deserve the name, for they seen' almost eternal. It is now twenty-three years since we had any thing like a war, and the generation which has grown up in our navy since the year 1815, have had most pleasant and easy tim es o f i t, en j oy i ng t h e para de and pomp of war, with all th e secur i ty of peace. Th o se who fought our battles are pretty well all prov ided f o r, and have, most of th em , b een en j oy i ng the rewar d s o f their hard service for t wen t y - t h ree years, i n i d l eness an d ease. V,. , make no objection to the principle of rewarding mili tary services, but let us not at the same time detract front the merit of civilians. As for the outcry of the Tories, it is merely a b sur d. Th ey i ns i st on the Governmen t being carried on as formerly ; they will allow no departures from ancient practiee.s ; they re s i s t a ll R e f orms ; an d when the Ministers, out el an imp oss ibili ty of carry i ng ou t improve ments, continue the old s y s t em, t h e T or i es o ve.flow with anathemas. The secret of th e i r v i rtuous i n di gn ation is, that they are desperately hungry f or th ose goo d t hings of office which are all given to their opponents. By the arrival cf the New York packet-ship, Sheffield, a slet,l::vstE.;l7tavbee.,r Extracts:cfe o i u % r ea fty N ms e Lt v itie Y erm o t : h k aci p ot lat,fipteernirjs journals igornttaihil the e t 4 c t L e h i i l u v r , t r i p ,:i . n o . r intelligence of the evacuation of Navy Island by the rebels on the night of the 14th, will be found in another part of The Sun. We are happy to observe on all sides an in creasing anxiety to prevent a rupture between the Go vernments of England and the United States ; and, indeed, from what we can at present judge, one of the best effects of the revolt will be to inspire Great Britain, and the Alo nare:iical Governments of . Europe generally, with the fullest confidence in the good faith and strict inter national integrity of that powerful Republic. Th e readiness with which the President acquiesced in the necessity of rendering more stringent tile laws for en forcing n eu?rality—the zeal with which Congr ess seconded the views ' of the Executive—and the determination evinced by the authorities ordered to the frontier to deprive the tebels of all succour, will go a great way towards making the people of England more tolerant of Itepubleau ideas and institutions. Brother JONATHAN Inis risen filly per cent. in JoHN BuLe's opinion Ly this display of good . sense, good feeling, and good faith. Among the documents received or minor impo tance are addresses from the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, toSir.Fitaricis BOND HEAD, dated the Ist ult., in answer to the GOVERNOR'S Speech on opening the Session ; his Excellency's replies ; and a t ong Report of the Executive Committee o f t h e Constitutional Association of Montreal. The Ad d:esses being merely echoes of the Speech from the Throl. Sir FitANcis B. HEAD figures in them as that exquisite ninny which lie proved himself' at the opening of the Ses sion. '}'his speech, with Lord anountiases caustic com mentary upon it, having appeared in our columns, it is need less to trouble our readers with the Legislative Council and .he House of Assembly's concurrence in the truth of every word of it. The Report of the Committee of the Mon treal Loyal Association recommends, as a panacea for every il, the re-union of the provinces—.a proposal,in the sound wisdom of which we entirely concur, provided it could be accomplished with the consent of the Canadians of French Our readers will see by the accounts in our City Article, that the disturbances at Bahia have been brought to a conclusion. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have been received. They state, on the authority of letters from Africa, that Marshal VALLEF. has reported that a regular army of 48,000 men, well supplied with stores and provisions, will be requisite to the maintenance of the French authority within the limits of its present conquests. The advices from Madrid are of the sth instant, but they are confined to a pompous report of ESPARTERO'S movements in the vicinity of Balmaceda. The following is the only official news received from the Spanish frontier on Tuesday by the French Government : _ " PERPIGNAN, FEB. 12.-It is said that Baron de Meer, after having revictualled Cordova, had retired to Manrers. Nothing certain about the Borella since it was taken by the " On the 29th Oraa entered Benicarlo, which had been evacuated by Cabrera, after having taken possession of the provisions and ammunition." FRENCH FUNDS —PARTS, Fee. 13. Five per Cents.. mot 45c. 2sc. 4 c. Four and a Half per Cents. 105 f. .50c. Four per Cents., 104 f. l'hree per Cents.. 79f. 55c. 5Cc. Bank Actions, 9,695 f. Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 9.5 c. 99f. Roman Five per Cents., 191 X%. Spanish Actives, 15X. Belgian Loan, 104 Belgian Bank, 1,52.5 f. 1,520 f. 1,521 f. 50c. 1,550 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents 17%. Haytian Loan, 3S3f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 2.5 f. 47;4c.; money, 25f. 47;4c. Three months, paper, 2.5 f. Mc.; money, 25f. 32;4c. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 100 f. 47:e. Three per Cents., 99f. 65e. Bank Actions, 2,0351. Romans, 101 X. Belgian Loan, 101 1 4. Belgian Bank, 1,5C0f. Spanish Actives, 19X. Haytlan Loan, 3551. Brussels and German papers of the latest dates have been received. A letter from Frankfort, of the 2d inst., states that five-franc pieces, bearing the effigy, and coined in the name of the Duke DE BORDEAUX, as HENRY V. of France, have been for somo time in circulation in that city. We were not previously aware that the guardians of the Duke were such madmen as to advise an exile to assume the exercise of a function which can of right only belong to a de facto Sovereign. A letter from Munich of the 7th states that considerable destruction has been done by a great fire in that city. Fortunately the loss is not irre mediable as the property destroyed consisted in merchan dize, and not partly in valuable pictures, as was first ru moured. The following account of a shock of earthquake felt at Odessi, Jassy, and Cronstadt, onlthe 23d ult., is copied from the correspondent of a Frankfort journal : OnEssa, JAN. 26.—0 n the 23d of this month, at eleven minutes past nine in the evening, we had a very smart shock of an earthquake, which lasted sixty-seven seconds, the direc tion N. W. to S.E. The mercury in the barometer rose from 28. 3. 10. to 28. 4. 5. There were two shocks, the first ver tical, the second horizontal ; the thermometer 17% below Zero. Many houses were damaged, but no accidents of con sequence took place. The alarm was general, as it was feared that a more violent shock might follow. VIENNA, Faa. 6.—We learn from Jassy and Cronstadt that a violent earthquake was felt there on the 23d of January (at Jassy.) It was at Bh. 55 min. in the evening, and lasted 55 seconds, without doing much damage. The churches of St. Spiridion and Kuretaro suffered the most; the thermometer was 14. above Zero. At Cronstadt the earthquake began at 21 minutes past eight, and lasted 63 seconds. The houses shook, walls were rent, and some hundred chimneys fell. In five minutes all the elements were calm. At Tartlan the Church steeple is said to have fallen. At Alt- Oriowa scarcely a house escaped undamaged. Some persons affirm that the earthquake was felt at Vienna on the 23d, in the evening. BELGIAN I. UNDS—BaussEr.s, Fan 13. Actual Debt, per Cent. ltothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lO2 Loan of Thirty Millions... 9314 Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent 99 Society of Commerce, per Cent 137 Bank of Belgium, b per Cent 1461' National Society . —Brussels Papers, Feb. 13. DUTCH FUNDS.—ANNTRIIDAIV, FEB. 12. Actual Debt, 26 per Cent. Do du. 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic 4!,4 per Cent., Do. do. 3!.i per Cent. • Commercial Company, 4k, per Cent 17 9 1 /4 Now ditto AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vir.xxa, Fes. 6. live per Cents. Matalliques Foal* per Cents. ThrLe per Cents. Bonk Shares —Allgemeine,Zeitung, Feb. 11. ROXBURGR ELECTION COMMIT- TEE..-(TINS DAY.) The Committee met at eleven o'clock this morning, but was obliged to adjourn, in consequence of the illness of Mr. Duff, one of its members. A medical gentl2man was in attendance with the usual certificate, and was•dirtcted by the Chairman to be in waiting at the House at four o'clock, to be examined, if necessary, as to the facts. IPSWICH ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The scrutiny sti.l continues, on the samo ground of objection, change of residence. Messrs. Kelly and Tuflbell were, at the close of yesterday's pro ceedingo, on an equality. The Liberals objected to the vote of Charles Burns, but the Com. mittee did not consider the objection established, and the vote was retained. BELFAST ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The Committee sat at eleven o'cicck, Mr. HALPOURD in the Chair. Mr. 11:.A8IGER stated the case for the petitioners. In the first place, I.e objected to Mr. Gibson's qualification as insufficient, on the ground that the property from which the alleged quali fication was derived was he'd upon lease for lives renew able on certain terms, his, Mr. Gibson's own life, not being one of them. Further, Mr. Thessiger objected that Mr. Gibson had not complied with the order of the year 1717, which required that, when the return of any Irish Member was petitioned against, that Mem ber was bound to give notice to the petitioners in writing, setting forth in full all the particulars of his qualification. If these two objections, or either of them were established, there would be an end of the case as regarded Mr. Gibson, and the question would be beta een Lord Belfast and the petitioners. With respect to the Noble Lord, he (Mr. Thessiger) was prepared to establish against him cases of bribery upon an extensive scale. But as the in ves ti ga ti o n of such cases was always painful, he scrutiny, as t go into them on this occasion, if he should succee d in the u h t o i p n ed o , r t d o e s r tr t i o ke e o fr ft: e a t sufficient , number nz st ber co o m f votes eto t t o ire sea o t ft t e h i e petitioners. , contested question of opening the registers to review the decisions of the Revising Barristers—a power which he hoped the House of Com mons would always reserve to itself. Ile would now produee the poll_ books. He c a ll e d Solomon Darkus, Clerk of the Peace of the county of Antrim, who produced the poll-books of the late election. He had always received the pall books into his custody from the Sovereign of the borough after elections for Belfast since the passing of the Reform Bill. Ile now pro duced also the affidavit of the Sovereign, verifying the books. Mr. Ileartisom objected to the affidavit, on the ground that the date had been supplied after the affidavit was sworn, and interlineations also had been introduced after the swearing.—Objection over-ruled. Mr. Arspanws now objected to the poll.books, as not being produced by the proper officer. They ought to have beets in custody of the Town Clerk of Belfast, who was keeper of the Records of the Borough,' and not in that of the Clerk of the Peace of the county of Antrim—Objec tion over.ruled. _ _ A discussion was then raised as to whether Mr. Murray (for Lord Belfast) could put a question to the witness (Darkus) respecting the statement of a Poll-clerk named Kennedy, that there were erasures in the books. The question was disallowed, after which the poll.books were opened, and the scrutiny commenced. The numbers at the close of the poll were stated to have been— For the Sitting Members : Gibson For the Tories : Tennant 9Ol I Dunbar Mr. HAURISON said that at this stage it was for him to show that neither Tennant nor Dunbar were qualified ; and, therefore, although titioners, the petition in their favour could not be pro they were not p e ceeded with. I` , TA:LS --- sr v.M. Due ‘ Arrived. -- -- I)0e Ai rived. Due, 0 Amenea ....•.... 0 1 Franc, .... ......... 0 , 0 List on 0 0 I, Ta ya ~..... 0 1 Ottern. k Jersey 0 ! 0 Mo:ta ......- ----- 0 0 8a21104 A res.. 11 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0 0 CArtnagena..__,. 0 II tioll.i.d 1 Dublin... ...... 0 0 Joir.oica 1 'loaders .. 0 0 I., , wa:r islands 0 i 0 Waterfr.rd 1 HIGH wATEtt AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. binning 53 minutes atter a I Evening l6 minutes after 6 POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND. Second Edition, prico Is. ALETTER to the Right Honourable LORD JOHN RUSSELL on the MINISTERIAL MEASURE for Establishing POOR LAWS in IRELAND. By R. TORRENS, Esq., F.R.S. " The Letter of Colonel Torrens to Lord John Russell merits ereat attention from those who take an interest in this question. He points out the utterlityelessness of removing the social diseases of Ireland by means of the inten:led enactment. His tract is written in the bmt spirit."--Edinburgh Review. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. This day, in 2 vols. g vo., D IARY OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV., W IT H NUMEROUS LETTERS OF QUEEN CAROLINE, And other Royal or Distinguished Persons. t' This work opens to our view the seoret history of our Court and of our Royal Family for more than half a century. A perusal of these important vo!umes will not tend, however, to raise either Courts or Royalty in the public: es:imaik.).n. A number of the letters, anecdotes, and private memoranda, written when the unhappy Princess was is Italy, are very entertaining, and are full of expo sures of politicians, noblemen, and intriguers of every description." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK ON AUSTRIA. In a few days, in •'2 vols. Bvo., with Fourteen Engravings, V IENN A AND THE AUSTRIANS. By Mrs. TROLLOPE, Author of " Paris and the Parisians," " The Vicar of Wrezbill," " Do: - nestic Manners of the Americans," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. 8, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET, FEB. 14. MIL BENTLEY HAS JUST PUBLISHED TIIE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS :- 1. EXCURSIONS IN ITALY, By J. VF;NIMORE COOPER, Esq., Author of " The Pilot," " The Spy," " The Bravo," &c. 2 vols. post taco. • (Being the Completion of Mr. Cooper's Travi2li.) IL DAMASCUS AND PALMYRA, a JOURNEY to the EAST. By C. G, ADDISON, Esq., Of the Inner Temple. 2 vols. Bvo., with numerous Illustrations. HI. NARRATIVE of the RESIDENCE of . THREE PERSIAN PRINCES IN LONDON, In 1835 and 1836; with AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR JOURNEY FROM PERSIA, AND SUBSEQUENT ADVENTURES. By JAMES BAILLIE FRASER, Esq., Author of " The Persian Adventurer," " The Kuzzilbash," &c. _ _ _ . • 2 vols. post Svo., with Portraits of the Princes, &e. IV. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH. By G. P. It. JAMES, Esq., Author of "Darnley," "Richelieu," " De L'Orme," &c. 2 vols. Bvo., with numerous fine Portraits. " These volumes afford a very lively and interesting picture of the manners of the time. The work is also full of passages of high dramatic interest."--Morning Post. The HISTORY of FERDINAND and ISABELLA of SPAIN, By W. H. PRESCOTT, Esq. 3 vols. Bvo., with Portraits. ‘. A work which, whether for industry or ability, cannot be surpassed; it is; in fact, one of the most pleasing, as well as most valuable contributions to maim history. Certain we are that no library can dispense with it."--Athenwum. ALSO, IN A FEW DAYS. VI. MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI, THE CLOWN. Edited by CHARLES DICKENS, Esq. (' BOZ".') Author of the" Pickwick Papers," " Oliver Twist," &C. 2 -.;ols. post Svo., with numerous Characteristic Illustrations by George Cruikshank. VII. VIENNA AND THE AUSTRIANS. By MRS. TROLLOPE, Author of "Paris and the Parisians," " Vicar of Wrexhill," " Domestic Manners of the Americans," &c. 2 vols. Svo., with Fourteen Engravings. VIII. MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIiiIKNIGHTON, Bart., G.C.11., Keeper of the Privy Purse During the latter part of the Reign of George IV. By LADY KNIGHTON. To which are added, numerous Letters from the most Distinguished Personage, &c. Now first published from the Original MSS. vols. five. ; with a Portrait, engraved by Greatbach. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. , 4T - e, 4; '7_ .,4,,,t34 """ N •w 5 z ,,,ai t; :,.....,2_ ,. r Zrbt THE SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1838. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) SKINNERS' COMPANY V. IRISH SOCIETY. Mr. grsocastur this morning continued his argument on behalf of the Irish Societal• It is °weed the Learned Gentleman will occupy the whole of the day. S HERIFF'S COURT-(THIS DAY.) 110 DOE AND ANO CHER V. COOKE. This was an act; on brought by the plaintiffs, who are extensive litien-drapers, in Regent-strect, to recover of the defendant, one of the members of the corps drantaitque of Drury-lane Theatre, the sum of 141. 16s. 9d., for goods alleged to have been delivered to hm. The de-. fondant had suffered judgment to go by default. The Plaintiff's Councet submitted that the suffering jud g ment to go by default matte out a prollia facie case. The UNDER SHERIFF said the case must be amended before it was submitted to the Jury, r.nd was adjourned. COURT OF EXCISE.--(THIS DAY.) (Be f or e sir JONN 310KTLOCK, the lion. BERKELEY PAGCT, and HART Das ES, Esq.) EXTENSIVS ADULTERATION OP BRP.R. c a r i -street . r. G C o h h a l q \ u N a 'e r s e t , w the c l h .a c n i i , : a l o r g r t e l d o l f , m t h e w ;: h l a l d ir t e o e . Comm i s sioners were occupied some time thi s morn i ng i n h ear i ng anen-s h i . t The terat i ng his beer; thereby imposing upon the public to a serious extent. The pe nalties sued for amo u n ted to 5001 . Bullen and Austin, excise officers, deposed that from information they had received, th a t th e de fendant 117 d been in the habit of adulterating his malt li q u ors t o a v e r y considera bl e extent, they, in December last, went t o hi s h ouse an d ex amined hi s cellar. On the head of oue of th e punc h eons t h ey found t h e remains of a solution of treacl e , sa lt an d water, which bad evidently been p oured into t h e vessel, and upon c l s a h g the head of another puncheon, they found a cars containing half a gallon of the same solution. They inquired for the defendant, but his wife stated that he was not at home. The officers added, that they mediately sent for Mr. Golding Bird, the General Examining Surveyor of Excise. Mr. Bird stated, that upon his going to the house he tasted the beer on draught, and found it very inferior ; he was quite certain that it had been greatly adulterated ; it was very thin, and tasted strongly of treacle and salt. He waited a short time, and Mr. West came in ; and upon witness telling him that he had bee❑ adulterating his beer, he said, " You are quite right : I always have done so, or how could I tell it for 3d. par pot?" He also said that the officers had come toa quick upon him ; the solution contained in the can was intended for another puncheon. The defendent showed witness a pail in which he said he always mixed the solution. The COURT gave Judgment against the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 501. The other public business of the Court was of no public interest. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) James Robinson,. a tailor, aged 29, was committed to prison, in de. fault of sureties for his future good behaviour, on a charge of attempt ing to commit a rap 2 on Jessie Hendry, a girl of tender years. Hanley, an engineer, was charged with assaulting Thomas Trinder, a baker, last night, in the Strand, without any provocation ; and Charles Hodge was charged with attempting to rescue him from the constable, when on the way to the station .house. Mr. Mtrisnum, ordered Hodge to pay a lin2 of 20a., or be sent to prison for three weolig, and his companion to b discharged. WORSHIP STREET-(THIS DAY.) Doo STEALING.— James King and Thomas Rookes, two well known dog stealers, were charged before Mr. Codd with stealing a fancy Blenheim spaniel, the property of Mr. Gibson, the Magistrate, of Tot tenham, The prisoners wore ordered to pay a fine of 2.03. each over and above the value of the dog, and were committed for two months in default. A young fellow, named George Galloway, was committed to the House of Correction for twenty-one days, for brutally treating and kick. ing a young girl with whom he cohabited, and desperately resisting the policeman who took hint into custody. THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. French and Ostend mails, ship letters from Demerara and New foundland, Mauritius 28th of October, an Cape of Good Hope 2d De cember, have arrived this morning. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of yester day's date, bringing the Dutch prices, Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 14 ; and the Five per Cents., 104. The New York packet ship of the 24th ult., the Sheffield, has ar rived, bringing the confirmation of the evacuation of Navy bland by the rebels, and the British having taken possession of it, where the British flag is now flying. It is stated in the American papers that the Rebels have retreated to an island below Fort Malden, which is at the extremity of Lake Erie, from whence we have no doubt they will soon be routed. There is also a report that disturbances have taken place near Toronto, where some skirmishing took place between the Royalists and disaffected ; but not much credit is given to the above on dit. Not much business was doing at New York in the exchanges, owing to the scarcity of money. Bills were 109 IA ; Mercantile Bills, 109 ; the Exchange is lower than per last arrival, which was 110. By the Chilian papers received it appears that the situation of Santa Cruz in Peru was critical ; and it was reported that the Chilian expedi tion had arrived at Islai, and a part hart proceeded to the port of Couiga, where some troops were landed on the 26th September, and the place taken possession of. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, FEB. 14.—Wind moderate.—Came down from the River and sailed the Catherine, Elizabeth, for St. Vincent's; Ellen, Murphy, for Trinidad; Dale Park, Sorel!, and the West Indian, Simp son, both for Jamaica; Henry Porcher, Harty, for South Australia ; Arnoi, Seals, for Cadiz; Haidee, Herbert, for Africa. Poarsuourtr, FEB. 14.—Wind E. to S.S., fine —Arrived the Hope, Bundy, from London.-011' port, the Hamilton, Ross, from the Mauri tius, for London, sailed Oct. tl9; Cape, Dec. 2 ; Ascension, De.•. 21 ; outside Table Bay saw the Augustus, Keir, going in with loss of fore mast head ; off St. Helena, spoke the Francis from the Mauritius for London.—Sailed the Napoleon, Childs, for the coast of Africa. COWES, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Georgina, Brown, from Charleston; off-port, the Oronoko, from St. Thomas. POOLE, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Ann, Williams, from Newfiundland. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Orange Branch, from St. Michael's.-011:.port, the Schelde, Van Dyke, from Batavia—sailed from St. Helena, Dec. 28 ; Frederick, from Odessa. LIVERPOOL, Feu. 14.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrived the Botley wood, from St. Michael's; Redbreast, Millard, from Kertch ; Superb, from St. Petersbuildi ; Ameril:an, from New. Orleans. Off-port, the Rapids, from Bombay ; Westmorland, from the Maui itius ; Emigrant, from Savannah ; Troy, from Charleston ; Talbot, from New York ; Diana, from Bahia; Convivial; from Marseires.—Sailed the Nightingale, for Demerara; Paragon, for Pernambuco; Buzzard, for Africa; Sir F. Burton, for Demerara; and the William Hill, for Leghorn. PLYMOUTH, Fea. 14.—Wind E.—Arrived the Sir J. Beresford, from Singapore ; Nicholas, Witzen, from Surinam; Jabez, Airth, from Odessa; Phenomena, from Batavia; Bride, Porter, from the Mau ritius; Hercules, Nielson, from Lisbon. Sailed the Sophia, 'Stacey, from Nantes. Spoken with, her Majesty's ship Pique, lat. 45, lon. 20, by the Columbia, from Cork for Halifax, with the 93d Regiment on board, all well. FALMOUTM, FEB. 13.—Wind E.S.E. to El, strong breezes,—Artived the Astrea, Palmer, from Kertch. • Off port the Claremont, Moxey, from Demerara—out 55 days, and experienced very bad weather.. Spoken with, the Baik, Abercrombie, from Liverpool for Charleston, on the 2d inst., in lat. 46.30 N., lon. 2:3.10 W., by the Claremont. JERSEY, FEB. I2.—Arrived the Ariehat, Le Brun, from Cadiz. BRISTOL, FEB. 13.—Arrived the Ino, Whelan from Calcutta. GLOUCESTER, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Velocity, Clark, from Odessa. • Duumm, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Henry, Lyme, front Leghorn. Corm, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Brisk, Artia, Smyrna. Off port the Adelaide, from Halifax. The Game], Francis, arrivell at Falmouth on the 13th reb, from Waterford; fell in with, on the II th inst., four leagues south of Scilly, the brig Providenc.i, of Beaumaris, abandoned, mainmast gone, and a reefed top-sail set on the stump, and a fore top=sail clewed down ; appa. rently light loaded. The Columbia, Thornton, from Bombay to London was abandoned on the 28th ultimo, with three feet water in the hold, lost rudder, &c. crew, passengers and part of specie saved. The Byron, of Belfast, was passed on the sth instant, in latitude 49, longitude 26, dismasted and abandoned. . Tho Wisbeach, Cooper, from Kilrush, put into Falmouth, part of cargo thrown over, &c., bound to London. The Don, Snowden, from New York, put into Falmouth very leaky, bound to London. The Trusty, Stephens, bound to London, has put back to Guernsey, leaky. The Triumph, Kirkoven, from Batavia, off St Helen's, leaky. The Barniouth, of Bannouth, is on shore at Skerries. The Ki9g William, L'edlington, from Sunderland, put into Scar borough, leaky, having struck on Sunderland Bar, bound to Lisbon. Sir Frederick Trench has published in a separate sheet the letter he has addressed to the Morning Herald, vindicating himself from the aspersions of that Journal in re lation to the Adelaide Fund. Our readers will probably re collect that on June I, 1837, a ball was given at the Opera House, the proceeds of which were to be devoted to the re lief of the Spitalfields weavers. The Committee of Gentle men who got up the ball resolved as the best means of dispos sing of its proceeds, that the sum of 3,7681., which it produced, after paying all expenses, " should be applied as the founda tion of a fund to be called Queen Adelaide's Provident Fund, for the relief of the operatives connected with Spitalfields silk weaving, by loom or otherwise." It was further re solved that " it was not expedient then to distribute among the weavers, as they were in full employment, any sum beyond the 3001. placed in the hands of the Lord Mayor." At the time these resolutions were highly approved of by the weavers, but recent distress seems to have made them wish to get at once hold cf the fund, or part of it, and has induced them, according to Sir Frederick's statement, to assail him by se veral absurd and contradictory falsehoods. Without taking the trouble to read through the whole of Sir Frederick's vindication, we can readily believe that his exertions in behalf of the weavers have been dictated by the purest and best motives, and that as a trustee of the Adelaide Fund, he only carried into execution the resolutions of the Committee. Into the wisdom of constituting such a fund it is not our present business to inquire, but as the project, when it was first formed, was gratefully acquiesced in, it is not honourable now to assail Sir Frederick Trench. We speak quit impar tially, for Sir Frederick, by his concluding observations, takes care to remind us that his political opinions are diametrically opposite to our own. [ADVERTISENIENT.] —The Weather Almanaek bubble bas burst ; it says not a word of " frost" from the Ist to the 17th, yet it has froz en hard on the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, sth, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th, so that Mur phy has been quite wrong eleven days already this month. The " mild temperature" previous to the 9th, and the return of cold that day, were plainly foretold (it being mentioned that the thermometer " would fall 8 or 10 degrees"), in Lieut. Morrison's Meteorological Almanack, sold by Sherwood and Co., who have now all the demand for weather wisdom. ell twat A POLYG 0 N.—WC have been favoured by Mr. Mordan, the celebrated mechanist, with a view of this ad dition to our domestic arts. l'he Chromapolygon, which will he early submitted to the public, consists of geometrical paper figures, which are susceptible of multiplied combinations ad infinititm, thus forming a realisation of the innumerable and ever varied objects and colours on the kaleidoscope. As a mean of portraying patterns for Manchester and other manu factures, the superior decoration of the mansion or palaces i ts utility will be evident. By a judicious employment of the va rious shades of colour the perspective of solid geometrical fi gures may be produced, and thus an outline of the science. of solid geometry be insensibly acquired. As a source of bril liant ornament it may be applied to the decoration of albums, portfolios, th e-screens, and other tasteful or bizarre objects, suitable to the tables and boudoirs of the opulent. MILITARY MOVEMENTS OF TIIE HOUSEIIOLD INFANTRY. —Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, the various battalions of :he Household Infantry commenced the follow kg military movements, viz.:—The ‘)d battalion of Grenadier Guards marched from out of the Wellington New Barracks , St. James's Park, to St. George's Barrack's, Charing-cross ; the 3d battalion, from Windsor Barracks, to Portman-street Barracks, (the Ist battalion remains in Dublin). Coldstream Guards—the Ist battalion, from St. George's Barracks, to Windsor Barracks ; 2d battalion from St. John's Wood Bar racks, the Magazine in Hyde-park, and Kensington Barracks, to the Wellington Barracks, St. James's Park. Scotch Fuzi leers-Ist battalion from the Tower of London, to Wellington Barracks; 2d battalion, from Portman -street, to St. John's Wood Barracks. the Magazine in Hyde Park, and Kensington. The battalions ordered for Canada, and which were to have marched for embarkation on the 16th instant, received counter orders not to march for six weeks. Mrs. Fry is now at Paris, engaged in visiting all the prisons of that capital.— Temps. LORD STANLEY.—We have reason to believe that the paragraph which has appeared resp, c ing the state of his Lordship's health contains much exaggeration. We understand from a gentleman who was at Knowsley on Sa turday, that Lord Stanley was not quite well, having injured himself whilst out shooting, but that he was recovering, after having had a slight surgical operation pea, med. Our in. formant sass that his Lordship's illness was not considered at all serious at Knowsley. —Manchester Guardian. The Hon. Henry 'Wellesley, Secretary of Legation at Stutgard, left Grosvenor-street on Tuesday with despatches for Sir George Shee, our Minister at the Court of the King of Wurtemberg. The new - writ moved by Mr. Holmes yesterday morning, for Blidgn6rth, was in the room of Henry flanbury Trac-, Esq., who has accepted the stewardship of the Chil tern Hundreds. The Archbishop of Cashel, and the Lords Bibhop of Derry, Kildare, and Meath, are the Irish representative prelates for the present Session ; but their Lordships have, we believe, not yet taken the oaths and their !eats. The new Commander-in-Chief in New South Wales, Major-General Sir Maurice O'Connell, K.C. H., is a cousin, and not brother of the Member for Dublin. He is to command the troops in the colony, the new Governor holding rink in the army as a captain of engineers. THE ONE-SHELL PATTERN SILVER SPO-64,Ni AND FORKS, The neatness and elegance of which have now a very general prefer ence, are charged 7s. 3d. per oz., at T. COX SAVORY'S, CORNIIILL, LONDON. . (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street.) The following are the usual Weights:--- oz. s. d. X s• a. 12 Shell Pattern Table Spoons ... 3O at 7 3 1 0 17 ., 1 5 12 Ditto D essert di tto 2O at 7 3 7 ,-) 0 12 Ditto Table Forks '3O at 7 3 1 0 17 ` ,), " 12 Ditto D esser t di tto 2O at 7 3 7 5 . 2 Ditto G ravy S poons 1 Ditto So u p L a dl e ... 10 at 7 3 312 6 „ 4 Ditto S auce 4 Ditto Salt (gilt and strong) 1 1 0 1 Fish Knife 2 12 12 Tea Spoons 1 l'air Sugar Tongs 0 16 0 The Plain Fiddle Pattern, of the same weights as the above, are offered one penny per oz. cheaper. A Pamphlet may be had Gratis, containing a detailed List and . Drawings of the v ar i ous P atterns of Silver Spoons and Forks, Sa ver Tea and Coffee Services, Plated Ware, Watches, Clocks, &c. The Show Rooms contain a large variety of patterns of Plate, Plated Goods, and every art i cle requisite to complete a S e rvice. __—....... --- DIED. On the 2d inst., Elizabeth Mary, u,„Cred 9 ; and, on the 7th inst. , Anne Cath er i ne, d aughters of Mr. Homewood, of Utton Court, Tunstall, Kent. On the 10th inst., in Redcross. square, Cripplegate, Mr. Francis Hobson, aged 39. On the 10th inst., at Grosvenor-house, Brighton, Ilarriot, wif e cf the R ev . D r. Ilogarth: On the 10th inst., at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, M:.rgaret , wife of Capt a i n J o h n Davern, aged 38. On the 12th inst., Mr. William Steer, of Chiswell-street, Fins bury, aged 61. On i the 7 t , h ag in Q s a t. i2 a . t Hastings, Henry, son of Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., t.A. On the 4th inst. in Bond- s t r e e t, Fred. Hollond, Esq., aged 35. On the sth of December, on the voyage from Sierra Leone, the Hon. George R. A. Clements, fourth son of the Earl of Leit rim, Lieutenant commanding her Majesty's ' brig " Harpy," aged '26. On the 9th inst., in Connaught-square, the Hon. Mrs. Stopforl London; Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of l' lc * 112, St ran d , at The Stu& O ffi ce, No. 112, Strand, in the county 01 Aliddlesex,—Thursday, February 1 5 , 1638• THE FUNDS. Although the news from Canada is of a very favourable complexion, Consols are not so good as they closed at yesterday, 92 IA for the Ac count; opened this morning at 92a to for the Account. This trivial depression may be attributed to the reports in the American papers of the rebels continuing to snake some resistance, which we much doubt. Exchequer Bills, 54 56; India Bonds, 57; Bank Stock, 206, ad vanced 1 per cent.; India Stock, 265, also advanced ; Spanish Active, 18 , with Coupons; Portuguese, 27 ; Three per Cents., 17 % ; Mexican, 29 ; Colombian 271 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 53g. PRICER OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. flank Stook 256 rudia Smelt 2,:4 3 per Cent. 'ted. (12% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons 91%04 South Se- SW( k Npar Cent........... laN Old Annnities ...... Ditto Red 1005 4 34 Siw Ditto New 3I per Cent lOO% per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent... — Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 56 54 55 57 pin Bank LongAnnultiesto expire Ditto. 500 54 51 57 pm. Jan. 5, ....... 15 3-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1659 l5 Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1160 1 4 34 Ditto Advertised — pin Jan. 5, ISBO — Bank Stock for Account April S. 19:30 .h.n. 5, 1874.1,„ PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds... 10 2 7 /8 Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds _73 . 1 4 2 8 4 4 1 Ditto Account 714 1 4 3 ; IA Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ...... „.. hillian Bonds — Ditto Account ....... ..„„ „ CJiumbian 80nd5.„.„,..„„. ..... ilndla Stock for Account — Consols for Account Tins DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK i Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto New Bon.ls 27!4 i Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent.... ....... Prussian Bonds — RUS.ilati 13end.s, 1g ~. Dit , ' A, JAL° Account — Ditto Meta11ic.,.„....„ — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account ........... Ditto Bonds, 1831 lB7i Ditto Account — French, 5 per cent.......... —f. --c. --- 4 per cent 3 per c/riL ...... Exchange 23.50. Dutch, 2) per cent. 54;u% Ditto Account — Ditto, t Fer cent. — Dittu Account .... __— DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imperial Mining (,o. (issued at 51. pm.) 20 Ditto St. John del Rey .. 9 4. United Mexican (Issued at 21. pin.) Commercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 5 4 5 4 Ea,tern Countica Hallway 3 . 3 4 t a Edinburgh, Leith...and Newhaven S 1X, ,, ,y wear vi, cistern Hallway Company 65 94% 5 [Leighton {Lai:way Company London and Blackwall Railway Ditto Scrip 57; 61 04 London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 165 4y4 London and Southampton Railway Company 5O 40 London and Southampton (New) Railway 5 2234 I ‘b.nclaester and Birmingham Railway .. 7 9 1 4 t i i Midland Counties Railway Company 2O IT% Northern and Eastern Railway Company ... N• rth Midland Railway Company 25 ktit4 Colonial Bank counsE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. Amsted an C.F. 12 5 3 ,4 rlibraitar 4B Ditto, at sight .........i. .'. .... . 12 3% Leghorn 32 Rotterdam '2 U. 12 8 Genoa l5 Antwerp.., HaTnlturg. A1t0na..... Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Paltrrao For oz. 117% Ditt0......... ............ 3 Ms. 25 95 Lisbon ..... LS 3 i Alirseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfurt on Maine, Ex. M 15334 Banta Petersbuigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 BUCTIOB Ayres Berlin . 7 3 Dublin, 21 days' sight Vienna, efreidive 11 , ..1 M. 10 li Cork I% Trieste ditto lO 14 PRICE OF BULLION, FEB 02 - . Si alrid 35 Portugal Gold, coin •*3 14 0 Cali Z 35 Foreign Gold, in bars 317 9 B lboa .... . 34 New Doubloons 13 trcelona 'I4 New Dollars Saville • - 34 ' Silver, bars. standard 0 411 y.<2 Ditto Account Olurabian Bonds, 182.1... 27 6 , 4 714, Ditto Account. t 7 14 Dl:lisb Bonds Ditto Account ...... Greek ...... Ditto 13,.nds, 1825 Ditto Account .......... .••• Mexican Bomb, 5 per cent 25 Ditto Account ..... Ditto, 6 per cent. 28% 8 1 4 Ditto Account 2;l ........... —j PRICES OF !MARES THli PRICES OF IRISH STOCK; 3 per Cent. Consols 91 % -. Ditto Reduced — 3 1 per Cent. Stock I:9 14 Ditto New, 1530 3 1 4 per Cent. Debentures Bank Stock Royal Canal S.oek Grand Canal Stock .23% S. DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 13, 'Grand Canal Debs. G per cent. 9114 Ditto, 4 per cent. Hibernian Bank City of Dublin Steam Company 10 , ./ Nation.,l Insurance Company - City Debentures, 4 per cent - allast Office Debentures, 4 per ce..t H4LF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The Diana, from Bahia, has arrived at Liverpool. She is Ilea; a month later than the last arrival from that quarter. She sailed on the nd of January. It is reported that the insurgents had shown a disppsi tion o lay down their arms. Consols have been during the morning at 22/ to IA for Money, Ac count, 92?;; Exchequer Bills, 56 57; India Bonds, 14, to be paid off: Bank Stock, 206; India ditto, 264. • In the Foreign Market, Brazil Stock, which opened at 721- 73, has risen to 74k, owing to the report of favourable accounts received from Bahia, that the insurrection there has ben put down. Spanish Active, 18:, with Coupons; POrtuguese, ; Dutch Two-and-a-llalf, 53: ; Colombia, 27k; Mexican, 291. Three packets are expected next week from New York—two to Liverpool. TWO O'CLOCK. We hear that the accounts from Bahia state that two or three hun ,!red of the insurgents had been cut off, and a great many of them put to the sword. The town still held out, but it was expected it would soon surrender, as they were short of provisions. HALF-PAST TWO. A private letter from Bahia, of the 3d January, states, that the steamer from ltio Janeiro, with 600 troops, had arrived at Bahia. Also. three sloops of war from Pernambuco, with 700 troops. A sally had been made by the insurgents, but they were driven back, with the 'oss of 300 men. They were going to blockade the town, which was expected would not hold out long. THREE 0' CLOcK. Ceucels Lbr the Aer.suut, The Ordnance Estimates for 1838-1839 exceed those of 1837-1838 by the sum of 51,2051. The ordinary estimates for the present year differ from those of the last merely by the suns of 1,7861. ; the extraordinary estimates exceed those of last year by 90,030/., viz. 28,3581. for works, barracks, &c., 1,672/. for contingencies, and 60,000/. for ordinance and military stores. Savings, however, to the amount of 40,411/. are found under the heads—Unprovided, 5,145/. ; Superannuated, 2,8781. ; and Commissariat Supplies, 32,588/. _which deduct from the excess of expenditure over last year, leaves 51,203/. more to expend this year than last. The amount of credits, however, for, the present year is less by 97,503/ than last year, which makes the sum to be voted for the present year 148,7081. more than last year. The whole suns. to be voted for this year is 1,546,9311., and for last year 1,393,243/. _ Sir James Graham, as we announced on Tuesday, is a Candidate to represent the borough of Pembroke in lieu of Colonel Owen. He has Lord Cawdoi's and Sir John Owen's interest, and will probably be unopposed. Si'. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPIT A L.—Yesterday morning a Special General Court of the Governors and Di rectors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital was held for the pur pose of filling up the situation of Assistant-Surgeon to that in stitutio3, vacant by the death of the late Mr. Earle, one of the surgeons. There being three principal surgeons cud th re e assistant-surgeons belonging to the establishment, it is cu stomary, upon a vacan cy occurring among the former, to appoint the senior assistant to it up. In this case Mr. S tan l e y, being senior assistant, was appointed to succeed Mr. Earle, and Mr. J. 'Wormold to succeed Mr. Stanley. There were originally nine or ten candidates for the situation, but the great majority of the Governors being in favour of Mr. ‘Vormold, the other gentlemen withdrew from the contest, and, consequently, the above -named gentleman was elected without opposition. FATAL ACCIDENT FROM FIRE-ARMS.—`Ir. Davis, of Leominster, having some sheep in the Old Fields, near that town, invited Thomas Tedstone to dine with him, and afterwards to go down t o l ook at than. After dinner they went to the fields, Mr. Davis having his gun with him, the butt-end of which was resting on the ground. In the course of Conversation Mr. Davis, in moving, caused the piece to go off, and the charge of shot lodged in Tedstone's forehead, penetrating the brain, and causing immediate death. Mr. Davis, who was much attached to Tedstone, has been, in a state bordering on distraction ever since. —Hereford Journal. The French Government has established at Bordeaux a preparatory school for boys intended for the naval service, which is said to promise immense advantages.